Shostakovich’s Fifth

Evanston RoundTable, May 4, 2017 Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, and Mahler all wrote great Fifth Symphonies. Shostakovich’s was something else: a plea for redemption and a window to the terrorism that was life under Stalin. It seems there is something about fifth symphonies. Beethoven wrote the most famous one, of course, the one that blasted a hole […]